Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Maria Edgeworth
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Standard Name: Edgeworth, Maria
Birth Name: Maria Edgeworth
Pseudonym: M. E.
Pseudonym: M. R. I. A.
ME
wrote, during the late eighteenth century and especially the early nineteenth century, long and short fiction for adults and children, as well as works about the theory and practice of pedagogy. Her reputation as an Irish writer, and as the inventor of the regional novel, has never waned; it was long before she became outmoded as a children's writer; her interest as a feminist writer is finally being explored.
EL
published her life of Maria Edgeworth (she dated her brief preface this month).
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
Lawless, Emily. Maria Edgeworth. Macmillan.
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Eva Mary Bell
Some of her correspondence and a diary running from January to December 1936 survive in the archive of Hamilton of Hamwood in the National Library of Ireland
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The sympathetic Jewish pawnbroker in this book may signify a change of heart in EN
(who had drawn prejudiced portraits of Jews before and who was later to depict another wise and admirable Jew) comparable...
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Frances Jacson
Again, many reference sources attribute this novel to Alethea Lewis
, though Lewis's biographer Shippen doubted the ascription. The work was ascribed to Jacson firstly by Maria Edgeworth
in 1818, and later by Joan Percy
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
ENC
edited Maria Edgeworth
's Belinda (not one of Edgeworth's Irish but one of her English novels) for Everyman's Library.
MG
was chosen for publication in the Cambridge University
magazine Granta in 1983, and has contributed to The Guardian, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Mslexia, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday...
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Elizabeth Rigby
The second appeared in June 1844. This instalment (as Children's Books) considered works by Maria Edgeworth
, Mary Martha Sherwood
, and Mary Howitt
.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
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Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
1: 726
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Alice Meynell
She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen
inferior to Charlotte Brontë
, accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:...
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, pp. 285-7.
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Kate O'Brien
KOB
refers to women writers here and there in her text—casually to Daisy Ashford
and Nancy Mitford
, admiringly to Maria Edgeworth
and Lady Gregory
(the latter admittedly for her life rather than her writings)—and...
Oliphant's views on the status of women shifted somewhat with time. She dismissed the women's suffrage petition, and represented women who supported suffrage as unnatural. Answering Barbara Bodichon
, she argued that marriage was...
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Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS
begins with Sherwood's work as a children's writer, and the sway held by her Evangelical texts from about 1812 to 1850. She credits Lewis Carroll
in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with outdating the didactic...
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Vernon Lee
In her first essay, Lee offers a summary analysis of the English novelistic tradition. Judging them especially, though not entirely, on their treatments of morality, she evaluates writers including Jane Austen
, Maria Edgeworth
,...
